The year 2020 has been very bad for everyone.
Maybe a little less for Taylor Swift and for the fans of Corinthians, one of the biggest clubs in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo.
Among his followers there is a belief called Taylor Swift's Law.
This dictates that every time the Pennsylvania team throws a disc, the team does not lose the game before or after its publication date.
It all started on October 22, 2010, when two days before Taylor released his self-titled debut album, the team beat Cruzeiro 1-0.
It has been confirmed this past December 13, when a day after the Swift published its second album of 2020,
evermore
, the team defeated Sao Paulo.
In total, 15 games unbeaten thanks to Taylor.
A fan club has invited the
folklore
author
to parade at the next carnival.
It is not the only Taylor Swift Law out there.
Gary Veynerchuk, one of these entrepreneurs who have made fame preaching on social networks, has also established his own Taylor Swift Law, which is a somewhat complicated theory around the company that concludes that if you handle it with the codes with which Taylor has defined your career, success will always be yours and your employees, in addition, will love you.
These two examples are perhaps no more than anecdote, especially the second, but in a way they explain the social relevance that it has reached since Tayor Swift burst onto the scene and that, in a year in which all pop stars have diminished in power and relevance continues to grow.
What she has discovered in recent months is that she does not need to be to be.
And that being is even better than being.
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Taylor Swift has been ubiquitous from almost the beginning.
It was that
country
star
that it was photogenic, pop and salable beyond the scope of a genre traditionally closely linked to a territory and to a very concrete way of seeing life.
Then she discovered pop, and without hardly looking back, she entered the league of people like Rihanna or Katy Perry.
It had gone from being an anomaly in Nashville to being an anomaly in Los Angeles.
At that time the ubiquitous Taylor grew and developed.
She had her own entourage and those who were expelled from that circle then appeared in the media talking about how tyrannical she was, how much all the aspirants and newcomers on the scene wanted to enter, how difficult it was to enter and how easy it was. be expelled.
It was also the time when he chained several relationships with celebrities (Harry Styles, Jake Gyllenhaal, Calvin Harris, Eddie Redmayne, Zac Efron ...), some of which ended in some of his best songs of the time.
So far nothing out of the ordinary.
But in the pre-Me Too era, Taylor Swift was the victim of her naturalness and sincerity and, why not, a certain ill-calibrated ambition.
Against her he played that Taylor is so white and so perfect that no one could think of something bad happening to her.
It's funny how at the time when we finally questioned class and white privilege, the brightest star is a middle-class white woman who was even a fan of Donald Trump.
But Taylor Swift has managed to overcome the idea that she is a star that triumphs because of codes that belong to the past and to be accepted among progressives, when a whiter and easier target than she does not exist.
All this is already part of the past.
Swift has declared that it is not from Trump and he has said that he is no longer a music fan, proving once again that age, depending on who, is just a number and an appointment with the urologist.
She has been in a relationship with English model, actor and songwriter Joe Alwyn for almost four years.
But, well, as if he wants to go out with a different one every night, really.
The difference perhaps of this relationship with the previous ones is that Taylor and Joe have formed a discreet and empathetic tandem.
He, more than a good pianist, helped compose a couple of
folk
songs
, the feature that she recorded remotely during confinement and which has been celebrated for what it is: a masterpiece.
But Joe was listed under a pseudonym.
The world wondered who this mysterious William Bowery was.
Taylor confessed before the release of her second big opus this year,
evermore
, that this guy was her boyfriend.
“I have learned that if I talk about my partner it is understood that my partner is a topic of conversation.
And it is not.
That is why I have decided to stop doing it.
Our relationship is not a topic of conversation.
My life has become much more manageable thanks to this, ”he confessed in 2019 to
The Guardian
.
There is a new Taylor Swift, one who has achieved what almost no pop star of her size has ever achieved: change, and in that transition to keep those who loved her, win over those who hated her and even attract the attention of those who It is not known how, but until now they ignored it.